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[ash] /æʃ/

noun

1.

any of various trees of the genus Fraxinus, of the olive family, especially F. excelsior, of Europe and Asia, or F. americana(white ash) of North America, having opposite, pinnate leaves and purplish flowers in small clusters.

2.

the tough, straight-grained wood of any of these trees, valued as timber.

Old English æsce; related to Old Norse, Old High German aska, Gothic azgō, Latin aridus dry

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/æʃ/

noun

1.

any oleaceous tree of the genus Fraxinus, esp F. excelsior of Europe and Asia, having compound leaves, clusters of small greenish flowers, and winged seeds

2.

the close-grained durable wood of any of these trees, used for tool handles, etc

3.

any of several trees resembling the ash, such as the mountain ash

4.

(Austral) any of several Australian trees resembling the ash, esp of the eucalyptus genus

Word Origin

Old English æsc; related to Old Norse askr, Old Saxon, Old High German ask, Lithuanian uosis

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/æʃ/

noun

1.

the digraph æ, as in Old English, representing a front vowel approximately like that of the a in Modern English hat. The character is also used to represent this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Symbol of grief or repentance; hence Ash Wednesday (c.1300), from custom introduced by Pope Gregory the Great of sprinkling ashes on the heads of penitents on the first day of Lent. Ashes meaning "mortal remains of a person" is late 13c., in reference to the ancient custom of cremation.

tool A Bourne Shell clone by Kenneth Almquist. It works pretty well. For running scripts, it is sometimes better and sometimes worse than Bash. Ash runs under 386BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux. FTP Linux version (ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/ports/ash-linux-0.1.tar.gz). (1995-07-20)

(Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "fir tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs _aran_, found still in the valleys of Arabia Petraea, whose leaf resembles that of the mountain ash. This may be the tree meant. Our ash tree is not known in Syria.